Sage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sage products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sage over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sage Group PLC.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 672 774
Rank change year-on-year +158 +102 -122
Contract jobs citing Sage 73 34 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.059% 0.065%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 43
10th Percentile £274 £205 £380
25th Percentile £350 £269 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £581 £513 £538
90th Percentile £610 £608 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £338 £448
% change year-on-year +22.22% -24.58% -18.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile - £12.58 -
25th Percentile £11.25 £14.94 -
Median hourly rate £12.00 £18.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% - -
75th Percentile £16.82 £20.28 -
90th Percentile £17.43 £21.69 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.00 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -31.43% - -

All Vendors
UK

Sage is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,149 24,781 35,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.53% 42.99% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,244 16,575 23,424
10th Percentile £263 £270 £298
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £642 £637
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 681 898
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%

Sage
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sage in the UK

Sage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sage.

Daily rate trend for Sage in the UK

Sage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sage over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sage in the UK

Sage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sage.

Hourly rate trend for Sage in the UK

Sage
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sage within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +155 69 £413 +10.00% 125
UK excluding London +98 49 £413 +22.22% 110
Work from Home +126 23 £413 +17.86% 39
Midlands +39 20 £550 +22.22% 24
West Midlands +35 17 £600 +20.00% 14
London +85 15 £575 +21.05% 18
North of England +39 15 £413 +37.50% 39
South East +31 12 £500 +66.67% 27
North West +38 11 £413 +37.50% 24
East Midlands +19 3 £500 +37.93% 10
Yorkshire - 3 - - 8
Scotland +39 2 - - 4
East of England +13 1 - - 10
South West +8 1 £450 - 8
North East - 1 - - 7

Sage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.11%) CMS
2 2 (2.74%) Drupal
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.37%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) FileZilla
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Sage 200
1 8 (10.96%) Sage 50
2 6 (8.22%) Sage X3
3 3 (4.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (4.11%) Maximo
3 3 (4.11%) SAP ERP
4 2 (2.74%) Visualfiles
5 1 (1.37%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.33%) SaaS
2 8 (10.96%) Amazon SageMaker
2 8 (10.96%) AWS
3 6 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (8.22%) Serverless
4 5 (6.85%) Azure
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (5.48%) WhatsApp
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.11%) GitHub
6 3 (4.11%) Intacct
6 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.37%) IaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) SSL
2 2 (2.74%) FTP
2 2 (2.74%) WinSCP
3 1 (1.37%) Firewall
3 1 (1.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (5.48%) Big Data
3 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.74%) Metadata
4 2 (2.74%) MS Access
4 2 (2.74%) MySQL
4 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket
1 3 (4.11%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 32 (43.84%) Finance
2 14 (19.18%) Manufacturing
3 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.22%) Banking
5 3 (4.11%) Legal
5 3 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Retail
6 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.37%) Marketing
7 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (41.10%) Project Manager
2 15 (20.55%) Consultant
3 12 (16.44%) Sage Consultant
4 9 (12.33%) ERP Manager
4 9 (12.33%) ERP Project Manager
5 7 (9.59%) HR Manager
6 6 (8.22%) Administrator
6 6 (8.22%) Analyst
6 6 (8.22%) Functional Consultant
6 6 (8.22%) Implementation Manager
6 6 (8.22%) Implementation Project Manager
7 5 (6.85%) Developer
7 5 (6.85%) Project Implementation Manager
8 4 (5.48%) Accountant
8 4 (5.48%) Construction Project Manager
8 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Facilities Management Project Manager
8 4 (5.48%) Facilities Manager
8 4 (5.48%) Facilities Project Manager
8 4 (5.48%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.11%) JDBC
1 3 (4.11%) Lambda Expressions
1 3 (4.11%) Node.js
1 3 (4.11%) ODBC
2 1 (1.37%) BREW
2 1 (1.37%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.11%) Cyberattack
2 3 (4.11%) Learning Management System
2 3 (4.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.37%) Life Science
3 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Windows
2 3 (4.11%) Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.66%) ERP
2 11 (15.07%) Agile
3 10 (13.70%) Facilities Management
3 10 (13.70%) Project Management
4 9 (12.33%) Asset Management
5 7 (9.59%) Machine Learning
6 6 (8.22%) CAFM
6 6 (8.22%) Migration
7 5 (6.85%) CRM
7 5 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (6.85%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.85%) SDLC
7 5 (6.85%) Service Management
8 4 (5.48%) DevOps
8 4 (5.48%) Line Management
9 3 (4.11%) API Integration
9 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (4.11%) Security Operations
9 3 (4.11%) User Experience
9 3 (4.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.33%) Python
2 8 (10.96%) SQL
3 1 (1.37%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
1 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Developer
1 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (4.11%) CIPD
1 3 (4.11%) Degree
1 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.37%) ACCA
2 1 (1.37%) CIMA
2 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) vCloud
1 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Avamar
Vendors
1 9 (12.33%) SAP
2 3 (4.11%) Ceridian
2 3 (4.11%) Darktrace
2 3 (4.11%) FireEye
2 3 (4.11%) LogRhythm
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.11%) MuleSoft
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle
2 3 (4.11%) Splunk
3 2 (2.74%) CODA
3 2 (2.74%) LexisNexis
4 1 (1.37%) Aruba
4 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.37%) Cisco
4 1 (1.37%) Citrix
4 1 (1.37%) EMC
4 1 (1.37%) Facebook
4 1 (1.37%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.37%) VMware